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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: terry paget on 20 April 2015, 11:24:26
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/9jr8bd8ycaggk74/carINpit50%25.JPG?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/9jr8bd8ycaggk74/carINpit50%25.JPG?dl=0)
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Ouch. Much damage?
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A bit of weight in the boot and that should drive out :-\
Reminds me of the time that I reversed my Dads car straight into the garage door frame :-[
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Ooooo bugger!! :o
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Ooops!
You're not the first though ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w41v4vShaX8 ::)
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Whoops! Goes through my mind every time I drive over my pit.. really must put some marks on the wall to line myself up with or something rather than just drive into the unknown and hope!
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Quick change of trousers moment there ;D Hope not too much bending of metal :(
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Did you see that Victor Meldrew episode where as a chauffeur he destroyed the three classic cars belonging to his employer (John Bird) one by one? Including driving into a garage that had its floor excavated away into an enormous pit.....
Ron.
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Looks scary, and I'd be fuming and crying in equal measure were it my car - but in real terms I bet no appreciable damage. Worst case is a slightly bent exhaust, which you might not notice until you come to replace the mid-section, to find that it doesn't line up witht he cat section as well as it should. I'd say worst case scenario. My Old Girl (driven by a previous owner) once went too fast into a corner, ploughed straight on, flew through a road sign, over a ditch, several feet drop into a field, and she survived. :y
They're tough girls :)
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Did you see that Victor Meldrew episode where as a chauffeur he destroyed the three classic cars belonging to his employer (John Bird) one by one? Including driving into a garage that had its floor excavated away into an enormous pit.....
Ron.
Yeah, loved that episode. I hear the guy that did the stunt driving for that episode now runs a Ceramic Blue Omega Estate PFL. :)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riI7pN2UiaQ :(
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Ouch. Much damage?
Suspect not. In fact.... If it wasn't for the tension in the roll bar, that could be quite handy, IF the opposite corner can be waited down.
Is the bumper clear?
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Thanks for all the sdvice, chaps. On my old Citroen CX I could have put suspension on tip toe and driven it out. You could be right Al, load rear LH corner with fat old ladies, but not many about here. Back in 2009 I filled the boot of my 2003 ex-plod 3.2 with typemetal pigs in the icy winter, refuelled the car and both rear springs broke; so I was cautious of loading the LH corner.
I sought advice from my son's builder and he sent me home with an Acro prop to lift the car up with. But that meant me getting into the pit to put it into position, which looked tricky.
I wondered if I could jack the car up from garage floor level. I could not get my trolley jack under the RH rear jacking point. Bother. Needed a slimmer jack. Then had happy thought - use the car jack. Car jack went easily into jacking point; jacked car up until I could get trolley jack on three pit planks under RH beam; jacked car RH side until I could put planks under front wheel; job done!
Car seems undamaged, exhaust not banging - lucky me.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9jr8bd8ycaggk74/carINpit50%25.JPG?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/9jr8bd8ycaggk74/carINpit50%25.JPG?dl=0)
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Glad you've liberated it :y
I was thinking along the lines of enough weight to ensure traction to drive the car out, rather than for leverage :y
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Sorry, wrong pic. Here is the right one.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fihbpxr29d2jour/PITrescue50%25.JPG?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/fihbpxr29d2jour/PITrescue50%25.JPG?dl=0)